Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“Invest maximum amount of time into refining your gift and become best at what you were called to do and you will… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Universal credit is not lifting up the most vulnerable people in crisis. Instead, it's pushing them further into poverty, hardship and destitution. — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
“Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being… — Phoolan Devi Copy Share Image
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of… — Arnold Hiatt Copy Share Image
“Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws… — A.J. Quinnell Copy Share Image
“True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know we have a lot of poverty and we have a lot of problems over here in the U.S., but for… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
“No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It is rather your limitation that decides to what extent of greatness and to what height you are going to arise in… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living. — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the… — James Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's… — Thomas R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
